Review: Tales of Virtuous Stepmothers
With the holiday season beginning, it is a good time to celebrate true love in all its forms, including the unexpected. Tales of Virtuous Stepmothers by Georgina Warren is a book that celebrates the love that stepmothers have for their families by deconstructing the "wicked stepmother" tropes . The book contains a foreword and afterword from the author explaining why she wrote it and how passionate she feels about children learning to accept their stepmothers as part of their family, something that she struggled with as a child. Her passion for this comes through on every page of this fairy tale anthology, which is written in the same style as the classic tales . Although this format might not appeal to the shorter attention spans of today's TikTok generation, the book contains twelve bedtime stories about loving stepmothers that incorporate many classic elements and can be appreciated by fairy tale lovers of any age. I received a review copy of this book from the aut...